Abstract

Time, as known to many, is an indispensable component
of photography. Period(s) included in “single” photographs
are usually and naturally much shorter than periods documented
in video works. Yet, when it comes to combining
photos taken at different times on one photographical surface,
it becomes possible to see remnants of longer periods
of time.
Whatever method you use, the many traces left by different
moments, lead to the positive notion of timelessness
(lack of time dependence) due to the plural presences of time
at once. This concept of timelessness sometimes carries the
content of the photo to anonymity, the substance becomes
multi-layered and hierarchy disappears.
Included work titled “Homo vs. Machina #02” is created
in 2008 for a book project titled “G.D Technology & Art
/ A story of innovation narrated by eighteen contemporary
artists” that is published by Electa, the major Italian publisher
for arts books, to celebrate the 85th year anniversary
of an important Italian company, G.D. Work is composed of
tens of images of two workers taken in about half-an-hour on
a tripod, then superimposed in Photoshop in order to show
the need for human presence in the mechanized fabrication
world.